A previous blog entry introduced the notion of tracking the position and speed of a software engagement rather than only the position. This post focuses on lessons one can learn from tracking the speed, and how this concept and some associated tools can be a very powerful help in Project Management.
While the position, or progress, of a [...]
Like for a front page article in a newspaper, the key challenge when posting on a blog is to find the right title. What is the opposite of agile? Looking at antonyms, you will find terms such as awkward, clumsy or stiff. They do not seem appropriate opposite terms for what this post is about: agile software development. [...]
Design patterns have been around for quite some time already but have we really paid enough attention to them?
In software design, a design pattern is a proven and reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in a determined context.
The idea behind design patterns comes from Christopher Alexander’s book, A Pattern Language (1977), which talks about [...]
I was invited to share some of our experience at the Informs Practice conference in Baltimore last month, more specifically on our methodology work to support successful implementations of decisioning systems.
Informs Practice is one of two annual conferences of Informs, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. A group extremely vested in building strategic [...]
The Agile Business Rules Development methodology (ABRD) is the industry’s first free, vendor-neutral methodology delivered as an Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) OpenUp plug-in. ABRD provides a step-by-step process for developing business applications using technologies such as Business Rule Management System, BPM, BPEL. It details all the different activities to develop a rule set, from rule [...]
Welcome to a new comer in the already abundant blogosphere! We hope that, over the coming weeks and months, you will find here resources and ideas relevant to the implementation of your decisioning systems. Especially the ILOG-based ones!
What is this blog about?
Since ILOG’s inception in 1987, ILOG consultants have been involved in thousands of projects, [...]